THE PATHOLOGY, SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND DIAGNOSIS OF CERTAIN COMMON DISORDERS OF THE VESTIBULAR SYSTEM
THE PATHOLOGY, SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND DIAGNOSIS OF CERTAIN COMMON DISORDERS OF THE VESTIBULAR SYSTEM
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DOI:
10.1177/000348945206100403
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发表时间:
1952-01-01
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
HALLPIKE, CS
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作者:
DIX, MR;HALLPIKE, CS
It is generally agreed that within the last fifteen years some extension has been achieved of our understanding of the problems of human vertigo. Nevertheless, difficulties and confusion still persist and in the course of the present communication an attempt will be made to advance the process of its clarification, both by critical review and by a short account of some of our recent investigations. The foundations of the subject are to be found in the writings of Prosper Meniere, and these we take as our starting point.Meniere's papers on vertigo are chiefly remarkable for the powers which their writer displays of describing and analysing the symptoms and signs of disease. It is easy now to realise that it was this mastery of symptomatology which, more than anything else, enabled him to identify, with an accuracy which has never been seriously questioned, the disease of the labyrinth which has since come to bear his name. Beyond, however, asserting with confidence that the disease was due to a lesion of the internal ear, limited to that organ and indestructive to life, he made no direct observations upon its pathological anatomy, and further information upon this point was not forthcoming until 1938. Since then the morbid anatomical basis of the disease has been established by means of histological examinations of the temporal bones in a number of clinically characteristic cases. It is fair to say that this opinion is not perhaps a universal one. On the contrary it is still sometimes said that Meniere did describe the pathological anatomy of Meniere's disease, and reference is made to the case which